Jocelyn Rickards
Jocelyn Rickards (29 July 1924 – 7 July 2005) was an Australian artist and costume designer.
She was born in Melbourne in 1924, and moved to London as a young woman.[1] During the 1940s to 1950s, she was one of the Merioola Group of artists. The review of her works in a 1948 exhibition by Paul Haefliger was the source of the coined phrase "The Charm School" to describe these Sydney artists.[2][3]
In 1966 Rickards won a BAFTA Film Award for the film Mademoiselle.[1]
In 1967 she was nominated at the 39th Academy Awards in the category of Best Costumes-Black and White for her work on the film Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment.[4] Poor health led to an early end to her career as a designer, but she later taught costume design at the University of Southern California.[1]
Rickards was married to Leonard Rosoman from 1963 until divorcing in 1970; the following year, she married Clive Donner.[1] Her autobiography The Painted Banquet: My Life and Loves, was published in 1987 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and was praised thus by Graham Greene (a former lover of hers): "An outstanding capacity for friendship - rare in the jealous world of art and letters to which she belongs - makes Jocelyn Rickard's autobiography unusually appealing".
Rickards died from pneumonia at a care home in Virginia Water, Surrey, on 7 July 2005, at the age of 80.[1]
Selected filmography
- From Russia with Love (1963)
- Blowup (1966)
- Mademoiselle (1966)
- Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)
- The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967)
- Ryan's Daughter (1970)
- Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
- Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981)
References
- ^ a b c d e "Rickards [married names Rosoman, Donner], Jocelyn (1924–2005), costume designer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2024. doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.107108. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Paul Haefliger as "Our Art Critic" (20 October 1948). "Artist Relies On Charm". Sydney Morning Herald. NSW. p. 4. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
- ^ Klepac, Lou (June 2012). "Two Expatriates in Europe" (PDF). The National Library Magazine. 4 (2).
- ^ "The 39th Academy Awards (1967) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
External links
- Jocelyn Rickards at IMDb
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- Danilo Donati (1968)
- Anthony Mendleson (1969)
- Maria De Matteis (1970)
- Piero Tosi (1971)
- Anthony Mendleson (1972)
- Phyllis Dalton (1973)
- Theoni V. Aldredge (1974)
- Ann Roth (1975)
- Moidele Bickel (1976)
- Danilo Donati (1977)
- Anthony Powell (1978)
- Shirley Ann Russell (1979)
- Seiichiro Momosawa (1980)
- Milena Canonero (1981)
- Michael Kaplan and Charles Knode (1982)
- Piero Tosi (1983)
- Gabriella Pescucci (1984)
- Milena Canonero (1985)
- Jenny Beavan and John Bright (1986)
- Jeffrey Kurland (1987)
- James Acheson (1988)
- Gabriella Pescucci (1989)
- Richard Bruno (1990)
- Franca Squarciapino (1991)
- Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie (1992)
- Janet Patterson (1993)
- Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner (1994)
- Charles Knode (1995)
- Shuna Harwood (1996)
- Deirdre Clancy (1997)
- Sandy Powell (1998)
- Colleen Atwood (1999)
- Timmy Yip (2000)
- Jenny Beavan (2001)
- Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor (2002)
- Wendy Stites (2003)
- Jacqueline Durran (2004)
- Colleen Atwood (2005)
- Lala Huete (2006)
- Marit Allen (2007)
- Michael O'Connor (2008)
- Sandy Powell (2009)
- Colleen Atwood (2010)
- Mark Bridges (2011)
- Jacqueline Durran (2012)
- Catherine Martin (2013)
- Milena Canonero (2014)
- Jenny Beavan (2015)
- Madeline Fontaine (2016)
- Mark Bridges (2017)
- Sandy Powell (2018)
- Jacqueline Durran (2019)
- Ann Roth (2020)
- Jenny Beavan (2021)
- Catherine Martin (2022)
- Holly Waddington (2023)